St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-11-08
IN THE RAILWAY WORLD.
The Various Transit Roads Are Likely
Ito Make an Extremely Lively
70 Time ALI Around.
There Is Now Almost a Dead Certainty
Of a Cut Between Omaha &
Chicago.
The Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Line
Appears to be in Rather a
Tight Place.

The result of the meeting of the tram
sit and nOn-tranSit roads, held on Satur-
day last at the Omaha headquarters
office in st. Paul, it is thought, is
destined to cause good deal of trouble
and the general decentralization of rates
in the southwest and all through Iowa.
1t was intimated after the meeting was
over, and it was found that the Mime
sofa d Northwestern and the Burling-
ton 81 Northern could not be induced by
the transit roads to go into an arrange
ment with the latter; that the Milwau-
kee q st. Paul would cut the rates he
tween Omaha and Chicago and thus
seek to ruin the business of the Chicago,
Burlington IL Quincy, which has an in
terest i'll the Burlington q Northern, and
III that way to cause the Chicago, Bur-
lingtOn IL Quincy, in order to save its
large business in the Southwest, to
exercise its power over the Burling ton
Il Northern and force it into line with
the transit lines. One of the officers of
one of the transit lines unfolded the
matter a little more fully yesterday,
and in manner that indicated that the
Burlington d Quincy was in very
tight place and was likely to get the
worst of the deal, no matter whether it
brought the Burlington q Northern in
or not.
you see," said this officer, ''that the
Burlington Il Northern road
THAT STANDS OUT
against the transit road, has an AK to
grind land it amt Ratchet either, but
full-grown AK. The fellows that own
the largest part of it want to sell out to
the Burlington & Quincy, which owns
good slice of it, but not enough to fully
control its action. 1t has accordingly
put big price upon it-abOut s4,000.000
more than it is worth-aud they think
by+refusing to join with the transit
roads, and by standing out and taking
such position as to cause the Milwau
kee IL st. Paul to protect itself
by, cutting the business of the
Chicago, Burlington u Quincy all
to pieces, that it can force
fine latter road to buy out the Bnrling-
ton Il Northern, so as to control it and
have it work i'll harmony with the
transit roads. l do not want to violate
any confidence. and therefore L cannot
say that notice has been sent by the
Milwaukee d st. Paul to the commits
sioper notifying that officer that cut
viii be made between Omaha and Chi
cagO, but l can go so far as to say that,
in my opinion, if such notice has not
been sent it will be before many days.
Then you will hear music of very
lively and interesting character. Kela
Bella never wrote
so LIVELY AN OVERTURE
as you will hear if that notice is sent.
The Milwaukee Il st. Paul has never
been very weak i'll fight, and when
that road goes into fight, it usually
makes the fur fly. If the Burlington
& Quincy buys out the Burlington q
Northern what will we do with the
Minnesota & Northwestern? Why,
just let it alone. If that road thinks
there is any fun in carrying freight for
nothing, let it keep at it. In the
ordinary course of affairs that kind of
business will come to an end. The
stockholders of the road are very much
like the stockholders of any other road
and will finally conclude that it is not
good policy to run railroad for fun.
That isn't human nature. Just wait
for the conclusion.